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Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials

By : Luca Dentella
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Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials

By: Luca Dentella

Overview of this book

Citrix XenApp is an application virtualization product that allows users to connect to their corporate applications from any device. XenApp can host applications on central servers and allows users to interact with them remotely or stream and deliver them to user devices for local execution. Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials is a practical guide that provides you guidelines, best practices, and real world examples that will help you to improve the performance of your farm, identifying and solving possible bottlenecks and using advanced features including the new features provided by XenApp 6.5. Citrix XenApp is widely used to deliver enterprise applications to end users. This book covers the whole process of optimizing a XenApp farm, starting from the design phase all the way to tuning for remote users and connecting via geographic links. With your farm in production, you will understand what to monitor and how to optimize your farm, as well as how to use an open-source tool, WANem, to test the applications' behavior with different link conditions. You will also learn which settings and features XenApp offers to optimize CPU and memory utilization. This book will help you to prevent or solve performance problems and make your users happy working with published applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Health Monitoring & Recovery


Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) is a tool included in Citrix XenApp which you can use to run scheduled tests on your servers to monitor their health, and if a problem is detected, you can automatically perform recovery actions.

It includes a standard set of tests, but you can import additional tests downloaded from the Internet or even develop custom ones.

Standard tests

Following are the tests HMR can perform out of the box:

Test name

Description

Citrix IMA Service test

This test checks if the IMA Service is running on the server enumerating the available applications.

Logon monitor test

This test checks if there are many logon/logoff cycles within a short period on the server; this may indicate possible problems in session initialization or application launch.

You can configure three test parameters specifying the command-line arguments:

  • /SessionTime:sec (default 5 seconds), is the maximum session time for a short logon/logoff cycle

  • /SessionInterval...